mediatorial
Americanadjective
Usage
What does mediatorial mean? Mediatorial means involving, relating to, or resembling a mediator—a person who mediates or helps to settle a dispute or create agreement when there is conflict between two or more people or groups by acting as an intermediary or go-between for those parties. This process is called mediation, and it always involves a mediator acting as an impartial third party to guide the communication between the conflicting parties. Sometimes, mediation happens in an informal way. You might act in a mediatorial capacity to help two friends settle an argument. But mediation and related terms are perhaps most commonly used in more specific ways in formal situations, such as mediation between a company and its striking employees or mediation between spouses who are getting divorced. Example: I tried to take a mediatorial role to smooth things over between my sisters.
Etymology
Origin of mediatorial
Example Sentences
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Connected with this opinion is the idea that the priesthood is the only mediatorial office between Christ and the congregation.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
The mediatorial character and glory of Christ ought to be maintained.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
The mediatorial view of the Bible, or the view which mediates between the others.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
Then special light began to shine upon the whole sanctuary subject, and Christ's mediatorial or priestly work in it.
From Our Day In the Light of Prophecy by Spicer, William Ambrose
It throws a broad illumination on the grand finality and uniqueness of the mediatorial priesthood of our Lord, the Son of God.
From Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)
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